[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.0.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 6.0.0 release. This release contains 3300+ commits from 268
authors.

You can grab the tarball from our download page here:

  https://www.qemu.org/download/#source

The full list of changes are available at:

  https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.0

Highlights include:

 * 68k: new 'virt' machine type based on virtio devices
 * ARM: support for ARMv8.1-M 'Helium' architecture and Cortex-M55 CPU
 * ARM: support for ARMv8.4 TTST, SEL2, and DIT extensions
 * ARM: ARMv8.5 MemTag extension now available for both system and usermode
   emulation
 * ARM: support for new mps3-an524, mps3-an547 board models
 * ARM: additional device emulation support for xlnx-zynqmp, xlnx-versal,
   sbsa-ref, npcm7xx, and sabrelite board models
 * Hexagon: new emulation support for Qualcomm hexagon DSP units
 * MIPS: new Loongson-3 'virt' machine type
 * PowerPC: external BMC support for powernv machine type
 * PowerPC: pseries machines now report memory unplug failures to management
   tools, as well as retrying unsuccessful CPU unplug requests
 * RISC-V: Microchip PolarFire board now supports QSPI NOR flash
 * Tricore: support for new TriBoard board model emulating Infineon TC27x SoC
 * x86: AMD SEV-ES support for running guests with secured CPU register state
 * x86: TCG emulation support for protection keys (PKS)
 
 * ACPI: support for assigning NICs to known names in guest OS independently of
   PCI slot placement
 * NVMe: new emulation support for v1.4 spec with many new features,
   experimental support for Zoned Namespaces, multipath I/O, and End-to-End
   Data Protection.
 * virtiofs: performance improvements with new USE_KILLPRIV_V2 guest feature
 * VNC: virtio-vga support for scaling resolution based on client window size
 * QMP: backup jobs now support multiple asynchronous requests in parallel

 * and lots more...

Thank you to everyone involved!